bundle branch block

English

Noun

bundle branch block (plural bundle branch blocks)

(pathology) A heart condition in which the electrical impulses which pace the heart are not transmitted normally through the bundle of His.
- 1971, Leo Schamroth, The disorders of cardiac rhythm, page 185:
  The electrocardiogram manifests with a basic second degree conduction block, e.g. a 2:1 ratio associated with a bundle branch block pattern.

Translations

heart condition

Finnish: haarakatkos

Icelandic: greinrof (is) n

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